CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Commodity Fetishism
4 Apr 2016
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Fordism regime of accumulaion a paricular way of describing society (social totality) Modernism mass society thesis responses to highly industrialized commercial cultural world where visuality is increasingly inluenial. Post modernism as a cultural experience that emerges int eh west in the 1960s, cultural experience ied to early stages of globalizaion. Post modernism is the cultural feel of the new ime that takes place (from 60s n thereater) then the globalizaion of popular culture and youth culture. Globalizaion - more complexity than just the americanizaion or westernizaion of everyday experience. Globalizaion is teid to the expansion of capitalist markets, the development of digital technology and global communicaion (satellites creaing a global space that allows ppl to receive and interact) Technology and media companies have crucial role in enabling globalizaion. Which creates things possible like the global teenager/youth which was not really imaginable 30 years ago.
